Jack Bone is a detective, and nothing gets in the way of solving a case-not even the recent death of his partner. Still reeling from loss, Bone accepts an assignment in Wolfston, investigating the profitability of England's last woolen mill. There's something strange about the staff at the mill, though-especially the night shift, who seem to have a lot of secrets. The employees at the Wolfston mill are vampires, and they don't like Bone snooping around.

He escapes unscathed, but that isn't the end of his troubles. Bone's busy caseload also includes the suspected smuggling of...

Jack Bone is a detective, and nothing gets in the way of solving a case-not even the recent death of his partner. Still reeling from loss, Bone accepts an assignment in Wolfston, investigating the profitability of England's last woolen mill. There's something strange about the staff at the mill, though-especially the night shift, who seem to have a lot of secrets. The employees at the Wolfston mill are vampires, and they don't like Bone snooping around.

He escapes unscathed, but that isn't the end of his troubles. Bone's busy caseload also includes the suspected smuggling of...

Jack Bone is at it again in Paul Dalzell's haunting new novel, "Everything Hurts."

As a cop-turned-private investigator with a vampire girlfriend, Bone is used to living life on the edge. But when a slew of college girls turns up dead from heroin overdoses, his investigation takes him to places darker than he could ever imagine.

The first stop? Crime boss Alfie Rice, who gives Bone and his assistant, Lucy Laughton, the inside track on local heroin dealers. It's in this sordid world where they also learn about the existence of the urban legend known as Candyman, a drug-related serial...